
It was a la trance state, a dreamy affair that ended abruptly for the narrator.Īs a result, he wonders if this time was measurable quality or just a figment of his imagination. He is in awe as to how time flew which they spent together.

The narrator realizes the fact afterward as they part their ways. While they part their respective ways, the narrator affirms that her notion was correct all along his days with her were just a dream. As luck would have it, the narrator seems to be parting ways with his significant other permanently. Although the kiss indicates the parting of ways, it’s usually a melancholic ending in the case of Poe. In the first stanza, the narrator demands a farewell kiss on the brow.

In ‘A Dream within a Dream,’ Edgar Allan Poe implies that time is slipping away from the grasp of human beings a la sand on the beach, indicating that our existence is at the end inconsequent or a mere abstraction.
